In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in which the natural sciences are exemplary for... Zobraziť viac
Following two previous works, OBJECTIVITY, RELATIVISM, AND TRUTH and ESSAYS ON HEIDEGGER AND OTHERS, Richard Rorty, one of America's foremost social philosophical and cultural theorists, continues to defend his provocative and pragmatic view of truth.... Zobraziť viac
Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers. The second volume pursues the themes... Zobraziť viac
